1B Frankenstein and Culture

Quick Write

Frankenstein

Let us break down the title. Frankenstein is the name of the Doctor that is telling us the story. What about the second part? What is Prometheus? What do you know about him?

Victor Frankenstein: The Narrator, Doctor, creator

Prometheus: ?

What does modern Prometheus mean then?

The Question

The question I want to consider now is: What it means to be human? Arguably, literary texts in charting human actions and emotions and so on, reflect back at us what makes us who we are? What makes us tick?

By looking at the monsters we create, we can learn what is means to be human and/or to be humane.

I want to focus on passages from Chapter 4 and 5 from the book. Here is the beginning passage:

When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it. Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour. I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed. I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success. Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability. It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being. As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large. After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.

No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs. Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.

These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour. My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize. One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places. Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay? My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. It was indeed but a passing trance, that only made me feel with renewed acuteness so soon as, the unnatural stimulus ceasing to operate, I had returned to my old habits. I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame. In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment. The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.

The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit. It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature. And the same feelings which made me neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time. I knew my silence disquieted them, and I well remembered the words of my father: “I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you. You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected.”

I knew well therefore what would be my father’s feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination. I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

I then thought that my father would be unjust if he ascribed my neglect to vice or faultiness on my part, but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame. A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.

But I forget that I am moralizing in the most interesting part of my tale, and your looks remind me to proceed. My father made no reproach in his letters and only took notice of my silence by inquiring into my occupations more particularly than before. Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves—sights which before always yielded me supreme delight—so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation. The leaves of that year had withered before my work drew near to a close, and now every day showed me more plainly how well I had succeeded. But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favourite employment. Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime. Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.

Chapter 5

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness. But it was in vain; I slept, indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams. I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.

Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.

I passed the night wretchedly. Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness. Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!

Dr. Frankenstein is trying to do a great thing. He wants to save human life. Why then is his greatest achievement, life, an abomination, a creature, a monster?

Why does he turn his back on the monster? What theory from Cohen would help us understand why the creation is a monster?

Who then is the monster? If you had a baby that was born with a physical or mental handicap, would you turn your back? Would you be horrified?

Quick Write

Pick a Monster. Write for five minutes and comment below.

Monster Theory

What monster theory from Cohen, helps us understand Frankenstein and his monstrosity.

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King Kong
comes from Skull Island
been in three movies
misunderstood
likes the main actress of the movie
defender of the island
can see emotion in his eyes
fights with humans
is a gorilla
is the only one of his kind on the island
has personality
is humungous
black with brown eyes
very strong
battles other animals on the island

Demons:
These are things that people have so much fear of. They come from what I believe is the fear of death. People fear death so much that they made up thier own monsters of the after life coming back for them. I think this is something good to wirte about because a lot of people beleive in different things about demaons and some people do not but as for the topic of monsters that we are talking not all the ones we listed are real they just scare people to pion of in thier own mind they are real. There are so many stories about demons. They are in movie and in stories. People love the fact of people being scared to where they will read and watch things about them but when it comes to actually facing a demon the so called story becomes a reality….. or does it.

Serial killers:
Kills a large number of people repeatedly and a continues pattern.
They have a certain MO that drives them to do this.
They have distinctive characteristics that makes those murders perfect to them.
In a sense it leaves a imprint that will compare to any other murders to see if their similar.
There are thousands of shows on it, Criminal minds, Criminal minds cyber.
Serial killers often have different methods or props that show their reasonings
Not all serial killers have the same MO
Some times there are copy cats of serial killers
People who envy these murders and show their devotion by recreating their murders.

Ferid Bathory; A notorious vampire in a world where vampires have taken over the world and use humans as life stalk. In the first episode of the show he appears in (Seraph of the End) he murders all of the main protagonists friends brutally, slicing them in half and decapitating them.
Alucard: (Hellsing Ultimate) He is no sparkly vampire but works to murder other monsters and rid of evil in the world under the order of Hellra (probably not how you spell her name but). Despite the good he does for the world the church still sees him as an enemy. The way he kills is brutal and one of his forms is far from human. It is a big blob of darkness with teeth and eyes.

The monster I’m going to do is vampires. Vampires are seen in media, in movies such as twilight and shows such as vampire diaries and the originals. Vampires, are usually portrayed of as murderous monsters, but in the show vampire diaries, not all of them are necessarily “monsters”. For instance, in Vampire diaries there is a character Stephen, who is caring and kind and feeds on animals rather than humans. This implies that not all vampires are necessarily considered monsters. But his brother Damon, on the other hand is cold hearted, emotionless, and careless and will casually kill people. The brothers weren’t always monsters, but had been bitten in order to become one. Before that Damon, for instance, was much more caring, but being turned into a vampire made him more careless.

The monster I chose is a child molestor. what i know of this person is someone who has a sick in the head and tends to target children and rape them, touch them, abuse them and have them do all kinds of creepy stuff with them as in like oral sex. I know they recieve plessure from this since thats what they tend to always want to do and get all excited. Also it continues till their caught. Theres never a stop to it . There are many ways these child moestors get children. They either are fasmily with them that they have them near them or some even kidnapped some kids. From stories ive read is that some keep them locked away and never return them to their family for my years .

The monster I’m going to do is a bully. The reason why is that they seem to leave an impact on a victim’s life. Bullies pick on the weak because they think they’re stronger than them and it satisfies them. But in reality, bullies are not quite as intelligent or wise as the victim, which sounds pretty ironic. Another reason is that when I think about monsters, I think about bad people like the bully.

A Human cursed with the bite of a were , Able to change with the help of the moon or with raging anger like the Lycan from the movie “Under World” . Can only be killed with the use of Silver , the most popular method will be by a silver bullet. This monster can hide and live a normal life during the day but at night can change into a monster with predatory instincts on a wolf to go out and kill.

My monster of choice is medusa i am not 100% aware of all that she does or did but i am a fan of how she is portrayed in all her stories. For example she has snakes as her hair and she hates men so any man who even so much looks at her is a dead man. With a monster like herself its easy to see why she hates men, she is clearly very ugly and has very ugly hair. As a tormentor and keeper of certain mystic things she is someone to be reckoned with, many have failed to defeat her and it takes a special individual to be able to defeat her.

Dr Hannibal Lector
Dr Lector is a character created by fiction author Thomas Harris. This character has appeared in multiple connected books and movies by the same titles. Dr lector is a brilliant psychiatrist but he is also a cannibal. He is what is considered in the book by Dr Chillton, the attending psychiatrist at the facility Dr Lector is imprisoned in, to a a pure psychopath. Lectors ultimate form of insult to someone is to eat them. He was forced to eat his own sister as a adolescent by escaping prisoners who invaded his home . This event happened during winter at the end of the second world war. This event twisted his psyche terribly. Dr lector has a deranged logic concerning his actions. This logic is what i would like to explore in my essay.

The blob as a series has three movies. The first and original one. know as “The Blob” was released in 1958. The second one, “Beware! The Blob” in 1972. And the newest one “The Blob” in 1988. The blob itself is a gooey, gelatinous substance that has an acid effect on any living creature it touches. This is how it eats, it melts down people and adds them to its own mass, and gets bigger.

Alien
I want to do more research about aliens because there are many stories about them. Some people think they exist, others don’t believe. Aliens are the people from other planets. They have different appearance, different language and different culture. People on the earth believe one day aliens will come to the earth and kill them all. There are many online articles giving out pictures of aliens and their vehicles which we call “UFO”. Movies and stories keep using aliens as a topic until now. I am curious if they are really exist so I may choose it for my topic of essay.

Micheal Myers he became a monster at the age of 6 when he murdered his teenage sister. he had mental problems and was sent to a mental home for years. He would come out to kill on halloween night. Micheal Myers wore a white mask and coveralls. He never talks nor does he chase his victims.

Serial Rapist:
someone who forces another to have unconsensual sex with multiple victim
has an MO
preys on their next victims
chosing the vulnerable and weak ones
gets a thrill out of inflicting pain and the struggle
installs fear into victims of coming forward

Cannibal:
a person who eats the flesh of other human beings.
I chose a cannibal because someone who thinks eating another human is okay is psychotic.
Why do they eat humans? some cannibals state that human meat tastes like pork.

Abigail Williams
In the book “The Crucible” she is labeled as the monster because she is accusing people of being a witch and as the leaders of Salem believe her more and more of the people are being burned at the stake for supposedly being a “witch” or dealing with “witchcraft”. She sends innocent people to her death then once everyone realizes that there is no withes at all in the town she runs off before its too late to Boston and hides out there. Not to mention she is trying to rip apart the marriage of John and Susan Proctor at the same time. She pins the story of people being witches on everyone else but her even though she was the main one practicing with craft from the beginning and then forth starts ousting out her friends to her death. She is the monster from beginning to the end. Her mouth was the killer from the start. So many townspeople died from her.

Pennywise –
Wakes up every 27 years to feed on children and is targeting seven children from Derry, Maine before he goes into his next slumber. Hwe has multiple forms to scare them with as that is his way of “feeding.” He is defeated by showing no fear . He has multiple rows of razor sharp teeth an uses the form that most everybody now fells is scary, a clown. He is associated with georgie’s red balloon and paper sailboat. He lives in the gutter drainage and lures the children in. He makes most people scared of gutters now. His body can twist any way and scares the children he is attacking.

Darth Vader
-also known as Anakin Skywalker
-became a Jedi
-killed Obi Wan
-helped the Emperor purge the Jedi
-wanted to learn the darkside to save his wife in childbirth
-wanted more power
-only child
-only redeemed when his son was about to be killed
-lost his humanity to become the man in the suit
-“more machine than man, twisted and evil”
-upset that he was on the council but not a master
-felt he was held back in his powers as reason for not being able to save his mother

The monster that i chose to examine was the infamous jack the ripper who i believe was a serial killer based in the UK who would go out at night and cut people up. At times he would mutilate peoples bodies in ways people thought strange so it is said that he was knowledgeable about the human anatomy to a degree. it is also said that he was never caught but there were suspects that were thought to be the assailant. i know not very much about him but i assumed he killed man and women alike and there seems to be no instances where he would kill children. He wore very formal clothes it seem in the time frame that he lived. and a top hat.

Bloodyface (Based on Ed Gein):
Killed women, skinned them and used their skin and bones as furniture. He even had a lamp shade made out of human flesh. He used the skin of women who he thought resembled his mother. Based on serial killer, Ed Gein. Oliver Thredson, aka Bloodyface would take women and make them pretend to be his mother, rape them, and kill them. He had an entire torture chamber in his home. He brought lana winters out of briarcliff insane asylum and chained her to the bed, before eventually torturing her, raping her, and attempting to skin her. She escaped however, so he did not succeed. Soon after, she became pregnant with his child.

Werewolves is gonna be my topic because it is terrifying and reminds me watching cartoon tv shows. there are so many interesting facts about monster who humans were turn into werewolves become innocent. as they are guilty, and they caused harm and kill humans.

I am choosing the vampire Edward from twilight because i have always been fascinated by attractive vampires who have certain powers. My monster shows that in our era how any one who looks like and lives like humans can turn out to be a monster. Its removing stereotypes from vampires that they have to be scary and hunt every human down, since he marries a human and does not attack his college mates. This monster portrays the 6 thesis from the monster theory which was about our desires towards monsters. Edward is shown to be envied by people because of his powers, looks and carelessness. He encourages people to look deep into whom they are friends with, as you will not know the person next to you is dangerous. Its also giving people strength that what if a monster likes you like Edward liked Bella and does not harm you. And, the entire family of Edward did not feed onto good humans from the society they were living in.

Jigsaw
Jigsaw, whose real name is John Kramer in the first few movies, is a fictional antagonist in the Saw franchise. Jigsaw often portrays himself by using a small clown-like puppet who speaks to his victims using pre-recorded messages. Jigsaw kidnaps people and brings them to abandonded warehouses and places them in sophisticated traps that will kill them or another person in a painful and brutal manner if they are unable to complete the taks given to them by Jigsaw. Jigsaw’s motive for kidnapping specific people and having them potentially killed is that he belives his victims are either wasting their lives or they must pay for commiting a horrible act themselves. Though he has killed a few people himself and is the primary antagonist, Jigsaw sees himself as a man trying to “fix” his victims.

Josef Mengele
I took interest in Josef Mengele because during class someone mention him to be an atrocious monster. From what i began to read i can agree that he is a monster he performed horrible experiments on his patients. Most of his patients were still alive, also were sometimes children. one of the most distrubing experiments that he performed was that he tried to sow to twins together in an atempt to recreate conjoined twins. He fled Europe after the all of Nazi Germany, he fled to Argentina, He stated he had no regrets for his actions.

Neagan from the walking dead is a monster. He seems to be a hero for some; however, people who do not follow him believe he is evil. He kills and rapes women in his own group. He has killed people outside his group using a baseball bat hitting their head multiple times and laughs while he sees others cry for their family members who are being tortured. He also has his group of people kill a mass of people just to save what he has built.

The monster I have chosen to write about is the grim reaper. The reaper is skeleton with a black robe and shith. He is the one who decides weather you live or die. He special power where if he touches you die on the spot. The reason he is a monster is because he gets pleasure from taking the souls of humans. He has been around since the dawn of time and he waits in shadows waiting for his next victim.

There are dozens of comics and books written about the origins and the philiosopy of the Joker and how he relates to Batman. I know that the most common origin was the vat of toxic sludge which drove him insane. So with that, I want to examine the character and his evolution as a villain over time in terms of how different writers were able to take the character and make him more than a mob boss/ bank robber, and truly turn him into a monster who warrants real fear. In the Killing Joke , the joker cripples barbara gordon (batgirl) and some argue that the comic implies the joker also raped her. As a serial murderer and alleged rapist, he encompasses the fears people have of voilent criminals. I would need to find more specific examples from older batman stories (Pre 1980s) but from what I know of the character in television, the Joker in the Adam West program was far more violent than the joker in the Animated Series of the 1990s. This is evidence that writers had to make him more villainous than previously publications would let people beleive.

The Joker
The Joker is a fictional psychopath that is in comics is Batman’s arch villain. He kills and torments people for the pure enjoyment of it and has no specific goals or motives attached to his killing. He is a monster because he fits the theories in which he always comes back because of Batman’s morals of no killing. He is unpredictable in the way he acts and within his story, the only person he doesn’t want to kill is Batman because he think it’s too much fun to torment him and keep killing the people closets to him. He borderlines reality because there are real psychopaths that kill and feel no remorse and will continue to do it. He uses his makeup and costume to increase his craziness and laughs when he kills to truly show that he is insane.

Vampires:
suck the blood of humans
they are immortal or undead
to become a vampire you must be bitten by one and have their venom kind of thing inside you and then die. you will be reborn but as a blood thirst vampire.
they are vicious creators that creep in the shadows. they can not have sunlight touch them or else they will burn.
some people have associated them with demons
Dracula – vampire Diaries.
always hungry
can fly
smell blood from miles away
do not like werewolves but can sometimes be them too
dark and mysterious
never grow old

John Kramer (Jigsaw)
invents traps for his victims to solve
he wants his victims to value their lives
invents these different “games” with many different people who he believed needs to re evaluate their lives
puts his victims in life or death situations
although he never intends to “kill” his victims, they might have to kill in order to survive
he doesn’t intend on killing anyone, every one of his “games” and “traps” has a way out
if they make it out he congratulates them and asks them to join him
is he really a monster or is he just trying to help people re evaluate their lives? – he’s never killed a single person…

John Wayne Gacy- sexually assaulted and murdered over 30 boys and men, was a clown for childrens birthday parties in his free time,he used deception as a common tactic to luer children in, all murdered by strangulation or asfixiaytion althuogh first victms were stabbed to death , executed by lethal injection, victms were buried under house or the garage, abusive childhood and struggled with his sexuality.

Dexter
Dexter Morgan is a serial killer.
He murders people who is guilty. He becomes a monster because he kills people, and he doesn’t wait until the system punish the guilty. Dexter takes action to kill the guilty, but what he is doing is not considered to be normal in the society. Killing people is considered as being a monster.

The Night Stalker (Richard Ramirez)
I know that Richard Ramirez was a serial killer. He crept into houses at night and would murder everyone inside the house. In the older days, it was common for people to leave their houses unlocked. Richard Ramirez thought that if a house was unlokced, it was a sign that he should go inside and kill whoever is in there. I also know that the neighbourhood caught him one night by chasing him in the middle of the street. They held him down until cops came. They call him the night stalker because he only killed at night. He was based in LA.

Grim Reaper (Death)
Death is as old as time itself, being a necessity for life to even exist. People throughout history have imagined him as a physical being who comes in many different shapes and form. One of its most common depictions is of a pale faced figure shrouded in a pitch black robe. It’s been both man and woman, and often times also appears as a skeletal being. Death has been touted as a sort of reaper of souls who comes knocking on your door as your final day arrives. The idea of Death harvesting souls and delivering them to the afterlife made them become associated with a scythe or sickle. Death is often imagined alongside great tragedies, and being present at times such as the Black Plague.

Cronus originates in Greek mythology and was the father of Zeus. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, Cronus was the youngest Titan, a child of the primordial beings Uranus (sky) and Gaia (earth). Cronus is a monster for committing horrible acts against his father and his own children. Gaia, the mother god, tried to convince any of her male children to castrate their father Uranus. Cronus, who hated his father, was the only one willing to do this, and became king of the titans for it. Fearing that he would suffer the same fate as his father, he ate his own children, the Greek gods.

John Wayne Gacy- Clown at childrens birhtday parties, bad childhood abusive struggled with sexuality, was drawn to boys or young men, killed by lethal injection, 30 plus victms, buried victms under house or in garage.

The Kraken: I know very little about this monster. I know the Kraken is a giant, mythical sea monster. Norseman sailors first told stories of this monster and until just a few hundred years ago it was appearing in biology journals as an actual thing that was thought to have existed. The monster I believe represents the unknown dangers that went along with maritime exploration in ancient times days. Also appearing in greek mythology, Clash of the Titans.